My Creative Life #7 - Veggie Garden Blues

Vegetable gardens are lovely... when all goes well. Luckily these pictures were taken when my garden was at the height of perfection. You can see the tomatoes touching the sky in the background... two days later they were wilted and on their way to dead. It seems the wet soil on top was not indicative of the dry soil below. We thought the garden was getting plenty of water meanwhile the roots were starving. I cut back the tomatoes drastically and they finally seem to be coming back... but my dreams of canning sauces and salsas for the winter are devastated. I may have to buy a bushel of tomatoes to make up for it.

I did invest in canning supplies and have already made a few jars of pickles utilizing the bounty of pickling cukes which bounded out of the soil... until they withered and died off too. The peppers seem to be thriving still... but they also seem to be staying green even though I originally bought red and yellow pepper plants. 

Perhaps the beauty of gardening is that of life. You don't know what you've got until its gone. Or on a more positive note... a few seeds can feed you for all seasons. Next year I will plan a bit better, more space, more plants and plenty more water.

Finnigan seems to enjoy the garden or maybe he just loves me so much...